Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration floral Participants will learn to construct

Participants will learn to construct a basket with a circular base

strip piecing by working with paper

TATTER's best selling Fat Quarters--now in a color story perfect for your fall stitching

Pieces of background fabric

It will be on the inside of your stitching

Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration floral Participants will learn to constructFor centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina Bulwer, embroidery historian and curator Isabella Rosner unpicks twelve embroidered histories to discover what can be created when freedom is out of